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Bipartisan bills aim to end Michigan’s wealth-based bail

The state’s reliance on cash bail has led to thousands of low-level, nonviolent defendants languishing in jail simply because they cannot afford bail

By Steve Neavling
Nov 12, 2024

Tags: Michigan, Crime, News, The Bail Project, bond, courts, judges, jail, Michigan House of Representatives, politics, bills, legislation
Michigan

Judge sets $100,000 bond for Grand Rapids cop who fatally shot Black man in back of head

Officer Christopher Schurr was arraigned on a felony count of second-degree murder

By Steve Neavling
Jun 10, 2022

Tags: Michigan News, News, Christopher Schurr, Patrick Lyoya, Grand Rapids, second-degree murder, bond, Kent County, 61st District Court, Nicholas Ayoub
Metro Detroit

Lawbreaking lawmaker Jewell Jones gets another chance at freedom after bond reinstated

By Steve Neavling
Nov 12, 2021

Tags: Jewell Jones, State House of Representatives, Democrat, Inkster, politics, Michigan, drunken driving, bond, jail, Livingston county jail
Metro Detroit

Duggan may revive ambitious plan to eliminate remaining blight in Detroit

By Steve Neavling
Jan 20, 2020

Tags: News Hits, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, demolitions, blight, Detroit City Council, bond, taxes, Detroit Land Bank, Detroit Building Authority
Metro Detroit

Detroit City Council scraps Mayor Duggan's $250M demolition proposal

By Steve Neavling
Nov 19, 2019

Tags: News Hits, demolition, Mayor duggan, Detroit, Detroit City Council, bond, Detroit auditor general
Metro Detroit

ACLU lawsuit: Detroit's cash bail system 'morphed into mass incarceration of the poor'

By Steve Neavling
Apr 15, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Jail, Bail, Bond, Judge, 36th District Court, Detroit, ACLU

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